WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Realistic Win Total? 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:09.200 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:20.920 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let go. Are you 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:25.040 ready for a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:29.360 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:34.760 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:35.520 --> 0:00:41.080 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:43.520 --> 0:00:46.760 It is Wednesday, June second, twenty twenty one, Season sixteen, 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.440 episode number one twelve. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:52.639 The Break. We're live from the s WBC Mortgage studios 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:56.000 at the Star. We're presented by Geico, and we decided 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:57.840 to make this a fun show for the fans. We 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:01.440 are going to take nothing a fan questions the whole show. 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:03.880 I've already got a whole list of questions that people 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.200 sent me on Twitter. If you want to join in 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:07.920 the conversation or if you have a question, you can 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:10.559 call us also eight eight eight eight five five two 0:01:10.600 --> 0:01:13.520 two nine seven. Again that's eight eight eight eight five 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:15.760 five two two nine seven. We have not gotten to 0:01:15.800 --> 0:01:19.520 a phone call, probably since the pandemic started, because Nick 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.600 usually's talking too much for us to get the fan questions. 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:23.600 But we will get to some today and we're gonna 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:25.360 try to get as many fan questions as we can 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.640 possibly get in a one hour show. How's everybody feels 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.440 so good? So it just wonderful. A lot of you 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:35.520 guys are feeling well. All you guys, I mean, we're 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:39.160 not doing Okay, we're not doing We know you're going 0:01:39.200 --> 0:01:41.200 through it, and we love you, We got you. It's 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:43.240 gonna be over soon. It's gonna be great. Yes, you're 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.800 gonna love it. Let's jump right in. We got lots 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:49.520 of questions, got a lot of questions. I've already pulled 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:51.760 from Twitter again, you can call us eight to eight 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:54.040 five five, two two nine seven. Let's start first with 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.919 a quick question from Victor Perez on Twitter. His question 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.680 is what do you think our biggest train is going 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:04.200 into training camp? And what's our biggest weakness. Let's start 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:05.840 with the biggest strength first. What do you think is 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.440 the biggest strength of this team going get to drink camp? 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.760 Why are you laughing, David, I'm because, like you know, 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:14.200 and no offense to Victor get it's a it's a 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.960 it's just it's just what we've talked about for a 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.520 long time. It's like the central storyline of this team, 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:22.399 I think is Okay, let me, can I put something 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:23.919 in real quick before you say it? Yeah, because I 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.320 think I know where you're going. You cannot say just 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:30.120 blanket offense and defense. Okay, bad gotta get a little deeper, 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.519 Gottle deeper because if you're right, that's gonna bet the 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.840 answered then that would be really easy. But you can't 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.320 say this offense. You can't say defense. What's the biggest 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.359 strength of this team. The biggest strength of this team 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.800 is that they have one of the five or six 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.600 best quarterbacks in the league who has a tremendous amount 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.280 of upside and the potential to be one of the 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:51.760 two or three best in the league at some point 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.040 in the future. And and he's got a lot of 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:57.679 weapons to work with. Like, anything the Cowboys accomplish will 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.320 be because of Dak Prescott, and if they fall short, 0:03:00.360 --> 0:03:04.200 it's gonna fall on him. And their biggest weakness is 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:07.000 obviously I mean, yeah, defense is too obvious. But the 0:03:07.360 --> 0:03:12.240 back seven, specifically of the there's basically nothing at safety. 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.080 The cornerback depth chart looks better than it did before 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.440 the draft, but is completely unproven. I mean, the guy 0:03:18.480 --> 0:03:22.320 that you feel best about. Treyvon Diggs had an up 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.840 and down rocky rookie season, and that's probably who you 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.720 feel the best about. There's just not a lot in 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:33.240 the way of proven playmakers in the secondary camber. Biggest strength, 0:03:33.360 --> 0:03:37.280 I would say the wide receiver group. I mean, they're 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:40.120 pretty solid. We saw what they did last year, regardless 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:43.400 of Dak being out for so long. Imagine with Dad 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:46.040 being back in the makes and him being healthy, I 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:49.280 think the wide receiver group can do a really good job. 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:53.400 But also part of me almost wants to say Kellen 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:58.040 Moore as well as this strength. I wouldn't say, because 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:01.920 regardless of what happened last here and how things went down, 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.560 I still believe that Kellen Moore has the talent to 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.520 keep putting together things and making a click and making 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:12.440 the offense work once he has all his healthy guys 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.080 back into the mix. So I think it is a 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:18.200 good positive thing that Kellen Moore is still here and 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:22.440 that still hasn't been touched. So I do have trust 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.200 that he can be a strength for the offense as well. 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:29.400 Um I mean I think the offense, you know, is 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.720 the strength, and so which position specifically, I mean, they're 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:34.800 all connected. I think the receivers. I agree with the 0:04:34.839 --> 0:04:37.640 receivers are the best unit. But I think that they 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.920 they're aided by by having Zeke and having the running 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:42.760 game and having Dak throwing to them, so it does 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:44.920 all kind of work together. I mean, I will say that, 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.839 you know, the best position group that from I think 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.520 is the wide receivers. I mean, if Cedric Wilson is 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.000 your fourth guy and he's been around and made some plays, 0:04:53.520 --> 0:04:55.560 you know, then I think that the three on top 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:57.520 of him, I think that that's the strength. I think. 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:02.320 The weakness I mean I don't want to. I mean 0:05:04.200 --> 0:05:07.880 it's well, the weakness is you're unknown, and you know, 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:10.680 is it coaching. I mean I don't know. I mean 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:12.960 it could be. I mean because because last year it 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:17.479 wasn't very good and so I mean, okay, dan Quinn, 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.720 dan Quinn, that's great. But I mean we'll see, I mean, 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.719 we'll see if if that's better. I think it will be. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:24.719 I really think it will be. But like the whole 0:05:24.760 --> 0:05:26.800 thing with the pandemic and the coaching and all the 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:28.640 virtual and all the stuff, and then on the field, 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.599 and I just think that they're not getting as much 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.240 as as you would want there, you know, and I 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.400 do blame the pandemic for some of it, but all 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:40.320 teams are dealing with it now now they're not at 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.000 all dealing with it the same. I mean, I think 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.000 the news staffs are dealing with it a little bit more, 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.840 but they that I don't know. I don't want to 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:49.000 call it a weakness, but I think it is. That's 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:50.680 an issue that needs to be addressed. If it's not, 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.839 if it's a position or I'll take corner corner, all right, Yeah, 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.719 I'll say this. I really I've I've held true to 0:05:56.760 --> 0:05:59.800 this all last season as well. Even more so than that, 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:02.640 I think the greatest advantage for this team this year 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:05.080 is that they're getting those two tackles back. I think 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.120 if you take away one of those tackles last year, 0:06:07.120 --> 0:06:10.360 they're probably still okay. Taking away both your two tackles, 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.440 I don't care who you put back. Derek quarterback. As 0:06:12.440 --> 0:06:14.400 we saw, even though those games that Dak played, the 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:16.200 offense was playing well, but a lot of that they 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.880 had to do coming from behind because they weren't clicking 0:06:18.920 --> 0:06:21.440 from the beginning of every game. I think the tackles 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:23.400 were the biggest problems. So getting those guys back. I 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:27.000 think that's your biggest strength and weakness. I think the 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:30.000 biggest weakness is the unknown with regards to injuries. Think 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:32.719 about this. I just made a quick list. Got Dak, 0:06:32.839 --> 0:06:36.160 Tyrn Lyle at Tristan Hill, you got l Ve, you 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.600 got Kaze, you got Neil. These are all guys that 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.400 ended last year injured. These are all guys that are 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.440 coming back that you hope or at least No, Derek, No, 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.000 I'm gonna say no. You can't make a strength and 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:52.280 a weakness the same you just you just said no, no, No. 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.800 The strengths are the tackles. Win they're healthy. Okay, Okay, 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.200 let's just put it like that. Whin they're healthy, but 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.840 the weakness still is like you got them. You're betting 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.080 on a lot of guys coming back from entries last year, 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.200 not the tackles because their strength. No, I know when 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.800 they're healthy. I know when they're healthy. And I think 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.320 we all agree Tyren Smith when he's healthy, he's one 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:14.200 of the best, but five tackles in the league, ten 0:07:14.280 --> 0:07:17.800 tackles in the league. But you wonder if he's gonna 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.480 be healthy because neck and back issues don't necessarily always 0:07:20.520 --> 0:07:23.440 go away. So yes, when he's at his best, when 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:26.880 he's playing, when he's healthy, he's gonna be really, really good. 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.400 What we don't know is was this surgery what he 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:31.840 needed to get him back to the point where he 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.120 can play a full season. We don't know that. And 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:35.680 they're betting on it. They're betting a lot on it. 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:38.240 They are laughing. We're here. No. Well, and you know, 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.640 because we had a long conversation before this show about 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:43.960 what we wanted to talk about, and you know, we 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.680 were talking about the Athletic Podcast and they did like 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.320 the non quarterback draft, like the best non quarterbacks in 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.800 the NFL. And I get what you're saying, but even like, 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:56.160 even if all those guys are healthy, how good are 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.840 they not? The tackles, Well, I was gonna ta da 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.960 the tackles. We all know those, all about those three 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.320 they are like Lyle and Tyron are among the ten 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:06.520 or twelve best at their position if they're healthy. Dak 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.240 Is probably is top ten at the bare minimum. But 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.480 like all the guys you listed on defense, like, how 0:08:11.480 --> 0:08:13.520 good are those guys? Like, even if you get seventeen 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:15.560 games out of all those guys, do we know that 0:08:15.600 --> 0:08:18.160 they're good? No? We don't absolutely, but what we do 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:19.720 know is what we do know is they're the best 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:21.840 the Cowboys are gonna have. Sure, you're not gonna get 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:23.560 better than what you got with Tristan Hill. You're not 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:25.600 gonna get a better defensive tackle. You're pulling out of 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.080 off the way we wire at this point, right, Yeah, 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.760 you're probably not. The LV probably is gonna play if 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.120 he's healthy. What you're hoping is that he can get 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.920 back to playing like he played before the injury. Maybe, 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.760 and then maybe you got a player here, Like there 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:40.600 are a lot of There are a lot of bets here, 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:43.000 but the first has to start with can you get 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:44.600 them healthy? Can you get them to play a full 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:46.840 seventeen games? Yeah, you're they need they need to be 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.760 on the field, And then there's a completely separate matter 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:51.480 of how good they are. When I mean there, I 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:53.800 mean you kind of like put a question like if 0:08:53.840 --> 0:08:56.559 if if lv's healthy, like is he good? That's kind 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.240 of what it sounded like. I mean, he wasn't all 0:08:58.280 --> 0:08:59.760 pro as a rookie. I mean, I think he's I 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.680 think he's a good, really good player, But there were 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:04.520 times when he played last year when he was healthy 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.280 that he didn't play great, right, so would we really 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:11.520 know what he is? It was that last year? Are 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.440 you talking about last year and last year? I think 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.360 last year. I think we're gonna find out that last year, 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.400 especially on defense, is just gonna kind of get thrown 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:20.800 out the windows. The coordinator, because of the coordinator, because 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:24.280 of the coordinator, plus the lack of prep time. And 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:27.400 I think that some coaches did it better. Obviously there 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.840 are teams that did it better with this and this 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.559 one wasn't one of them. So they need to get 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:33.840 on the field. They need it, and they need a 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:37.920 better coordinator, plus the you know feel they need preseason games, 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:39.439 they need all that. I actually agree with you. I 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.760 think the defense will be better, much better than it 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.560 was last year. If I think like it'll be, they'll 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:49.120 be documentaries on this defense forever, like this the worst 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.360 defense ever thrown out saying that's gonna be deep blue 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:55.600 in twenty twenty two. Who would watch that? I mean, 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:59.520 no offense? People do like the train wreck. Look, people 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:03.160 like the train My experience like people won as little 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:05.680 to do with remembering last season as possible, So like 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:07.720 if it happens again and then we try to make 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:13.120 a movie about it from someone that tried to write 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.760 a book about the two fifteen season. By the time 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:19.080 the book came out, the Cowboys were five and one. 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:21.760 Dakin Ze twenty sixteen, Like, I don't care about that season. 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.360 It's like, yeah, yeah, it wasn't on the bestseller list. 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.760 Very true. Let's go to the next question. Got a 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.880 question from Adam Why. His question is how realistic is 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:34.240 it to actually think lv or Smith will be traded 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:38.080 before the season? Obviously, linebacker is a position has a 0:10:38.120 --> 0:10:40.800 lot of players there. What's possibility and by the way, 0:10:40.920 --> 0:10:43.119 let's not even limit it to those two. What's possibility 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.600 that that one of these linebackers, whoever they might be, 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:47.800 ends up traded before the season. Okay, I love the 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.920 phrasing before the season. Yeah, because that means that you 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.280 went through training camp in the preseason and you have 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:56.040 a much better idea of what you're working with. I 0:10:56.160 --> 0:11:00.200 do not understand the desire to have this happen this 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:03.520 week with either one of them, because neither one of 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:06.800 them's worth a lot. Layton has. He's missed forty percent 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:08.720 of the last two years. He's missed thirteen games over 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:10.640 the last two seasons. It's a lot one year left 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:12.480 on his deal, what are you getting for him day 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.000 three pick? Probably you're definitely only getting a Day three 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:18.040 pick for Jalen Smith with that contract and the cost 0:11:18.120 --> 0:11:20.640 that you would incur, I just can't imagine you're getting 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:22.959 a lot of return on your investment. And so in 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.160 my mind, give me the depth. We just talked about 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:28.400 how much their depth was challenged last year. Give me 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:33.160 the depth. But if Jabril Cox is just the ultimate 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:36.080 badass and you feel great about it, or Micah Parsons 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.360 is even better than we think he can be, and 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:43.360 all of a sudden, that doesn't look very necessary in September, 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.800 that's a different conversation, and we see teams do stuff 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:48.960 like that all the time, like the Cowboys. The Cowboys 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:52.600 typically trade to acquire players at roster cuts. But if 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.520 you just have a glut and you feel good about 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:57.360 the young guys, that's a little more realistic. I still 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.760 wouldn't bet on it happening, but I think it's got 0:11:59.760 --> 0:12:04.640 a chance of happening in September than right now. I 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.400 think I'm looking at the list and it's just like 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:10.320 one of those things that right now it looks like 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:12.920 pretty packed and all it takes is a guy going 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.120 out and then all of a sudden you start looking 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:19.200 at it and it looks pretty thin, and you know, 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:22.120 I'm never opposed to something like that, like a trade 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:25.320 like that, but I don't think I feel that comfortable 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:30.400 doing that at this point. And it's just so hard 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.600 to judge, even with a training camp and the preseason. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:37.120 Like they've mentioned, it's so hard to judge how good 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:39.400 a player is going to be unless you get into 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.800 the real season and start playing real games. So as 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.560 we know, and we do these shows at training camp 0:12:45.600 --> 0:12:48.199 and we start talking about guys and we're like, oh, yeah, 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:50.320 so it all looks good, and then the season starts 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:53.280 and you're like, oh my god, what happened. So it 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:56.840 can be very deceiving what we see during that time. 0:12:57.240 --> 0:13:01.640 But I would assume or think that these coaches have 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:05.920 a lot better judgment of displayer than any of those 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:11.560 any of us do outside of that room. So I 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:13.800 wouldn't be opposed to it if they think that's the 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.280 right idea. I don't think it's going to happen, though, 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:18.680 And at the end of the day, I think I 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:23.000 would just be okay with keeping everyone in this year, 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:26.480 Like I've said before, I don't mind sitting someone on 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:28.840 the bench just for a little bit. But that's a 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:32.560 different story. I think we moved to another question. I mean, 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:34.719 I think they've answered it fine. I mean, it's if 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.200 it happens, it happens. But I mean I like the depth, 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.040 right I like the depth right now. I mean because 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.120 what you're gonna get in it right now, you would 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:43.960 probably get in a compic. I think you have a 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.400 better you have a better chance of getting Pro Bowl 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:48.720 and all Pro players that you've had to try to 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:50.960 get back to that level with a coach like Dan Quinn. 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:54.760 I think people people get so paranoid about getting burned 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:57.080 in the future that they try to like sever those 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.400 ties in the present. Michael Gallup's the same thing, Like 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:04.200 people are so terrified of losing him to another team 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.640 in the future that they'd rather get rid of him 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:09.240 before they need to. And it's it's it's how he 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.559 goes in dating sometimes too, Like people are so afraid 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:15.400 of get and broken up with that they just just sabotage. Yeah, 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:17.040 that's a good point, so they don't have to get 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:19.520 to that point. It's a hole. Get you before you 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:23.160 get me. I mean and everything really so, and I 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.240 mean it's a great like you know, let's say let's 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:30.000 say Layton's just decent and he signed somewhere else next year, 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.440 and you get like a fourth round pick for him 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:34.840 in twenty three. I mean, you gotta wait a little 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:36.440 bit longer for it, but you get the same thing 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:39.280 you would get right now. But he's still capable of 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.640 helping you right now in the president And I just 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.160 think that's more about But also, fans don't want to 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.720 see Anthony Hitchins in any more Super Bowls, you know, 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.240 And even though that was a guy that nobody was 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:52.520 really that worried about him, leave it. That's you know, 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.040 I am the president of the Anthony Hitchins fan Club. 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.000 But that is a that is a situation that the 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:02.480 Cowboys handled perfectly. They didn't do anything wrong. Fourth round pick, 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:07.520 far exceeded his expectations, got paid way more than I 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:10.080 would have felt comfortable paying him here, went to a 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:13.280 better team. Like Anthony Hitchins isn't the reason the Chiefs 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:16.560 have been in the hits. It sucks to see a 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:19.080 guy that you drafted winning super Bowls with somebody else. 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.160 But like it's like, you know, nobody in Kansas City's 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.280 like it all changed when we got hit, Like that's 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.080 just come on and stop. No offense to Anthony, but 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:29.640 let's be he What sucks is like you gotta look 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:33.520 at the whole component as a whole. Like there are 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.640 so many players that we've seen being here with the Cowboys, 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:39.080 and everyone criticizes, like the fans, they don't like it 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.120 of blah blah oh free agency, it's gonna cost too much, 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:44.400 they can leave. Then they go to another team and 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.400 then you see them being having some kind of success 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:52.200 and being successful, and then it's like, I don't want 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:56.080 to criticize the Cowboys because I'm all Cowboys, but it 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:59.200 just sucks sometimes where when you see someone that wasn't 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.760 even really that good here, but then they go somewhere 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.760 else and then they start thriving over there, It's like, man, 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:07.880 what are we not doing right on this end? The 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.240 one thing I would be careful with that is I 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:14.720 think we may fall pray sometimes too. With the Cowboys, 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:18.160 we watched them every single play of every single practice 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.480 of every single game the whole night, and so we 0:16:20.480 --> 0:16:22.760 see all the warts and then they go somewhere else 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:24.800 and we only catch them on highlights. I think Jeff 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.520 Heath is a good example of that. We saw some 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.680 highlights from the last year people like Jeffy like, but 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:31.600 Jeff He's probably did the same thing there as he did. 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:33.480 He made plays here. It was all the stuff. It 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:35.080 was all the stuff that was happening when he wasn't 0:16:35.160 --> 0:16:37.480 making plays. That was the reason he wasn't here anymore. 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.000 And like you said, he's no longer will Oakland, I mean, 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:42.800 well Las Vegas. Yeah, And when you watch these guys, 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:45.160 you're what you know, Hitchens or Damian Wilson or whatever. 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.080 You're watching them in the playoffs when the Cowboys aren't 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.080 there and you're like, you know, you think it's not 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.520 that they're the ones taking them over the top, but 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:54.360 but you know, I mean there are some cases for that, 0:16:54.480 --> 0:16:56.520 especially then when you go back to the current linebacker 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:58.760 spot and you're like, maybe they should have just kept 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.640 him instead of signing. I don't have a problem with 0:17:01.680 --> 0:17:04.480 the way they played, Like Anthony Hitchins got paid a lot. Now, 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.280 there are cases that you can criticize for. I mean, 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:08.960 if you want, if you want to open the Byron 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:12.520 Jones Pandora's box like that, that's a premium position where 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.639 you have to pay for production. And you know, I 0:17:15.640 --> 0:17:17.880 don't think Byron got is just due because he didn't 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:21.320 get interceptions, but he certainly seems to be part of 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.160 Miami's defense becoming a strength of that team. And yeah, 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.520 it helps that he's got Zavian Howard across front. Like 0:17:26.560 --> 0:17:29.040 I get it. There there's you know, there's a lot 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.880 of moving parts. But like that is a situation where 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.359 I'm like, well, yeah, maybe the Cowboys should have ponied 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.560 up and paid Byron instead of an off ball linebacker 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:38.440 and a running back, Like how much better as Diggs 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:41.320 if he's got on the other side. You can start 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.119 playing that game and then you start really wandering, like 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:45.119 how much better are you off? The better off all 0:17:45.200 --> 0:17:47.200 year if you had him? Probably you don't think they do. 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:48.840 I mean, they still were going to be down on 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:52.919 linebackers right final draft Diggs though, if they have Byron Jones, 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:55.560 I don't think. I don't know. I mean maybe who knows, 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.639 But they don't go in They guarantee they don't go 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.080 into this draft, like we gotta get a corner. We 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.280 got to get a corner probably that's rated higher than 0:18:02.320 --> 0:18:04.239 the linebacker we have because we got to get him 0:18:04.280 --> 0:18:06.639 and then and then we'll just take this corner in 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:08.680 the second round that you know, he's got some he's 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:10.679 got some issues, but he's got talent, so let's go 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:13.040 for it. You know, did he have really it seemed 0:18:13.040 --> 0:18:14.719 like he had really long arms. Just looking at him, 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:16.320 I'm thinking about is he had dan Quein kind of 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:20.080 guy Joseph no um um, Byron Oh, Byron Oh? Yeah, 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:22.240 I see like he had long arms. Yeah, right, it 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:24.000 seems like he would be a dan Quinn kind of guy. 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.159 I want to say, Byron, I don't hate that, I 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:28.000 know this, but I think because he had thirty one 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.520 inch arms, I think, yeah, long off the top of 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:35.560 your head and well stuff, I'm flat and on top 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:38.760 of that, I just my lasting mental image of Byron 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:40.680 Jones for the rest of my life is just gonna 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:42.480 be the way that he used to reach over the 0:18:42.640 --> 0:18:44.480 dB and just kind of poke the ball away, And 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.200 you can't do that without really Yeah, And so that's 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.240 why I was I was thinking about it from that standpoint, 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:51.400 like he might have been a guy that had dan 0:18:51.480 --> 0:18:53.800 Quinn been here a couple of years earlier, maybe they 0:18:53.800 --> 0:18:55.560 don't get rid of me. Maybe he's like, this is 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.399 the kind of guy we want. Chris Richard was a 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:00.679 Seattle disciple as well, and he was the one that 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:02.679 was like, this guy needs to be playing cornerback. So 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:04.720